Resistance


The Nightingale
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
The Handmaid's Tale
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
1984
Every Man Dies Alone
A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France (The Resistance #1)
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
All the Light We Cannot See
It Can't Happen Here
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
A New Earth by Eckhart TolleWay of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan MillmanWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerThe Beasts of Success by Jasun Ether
Thought Provoking
2,875 books — 1,490 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah ArendtOn Tyranny by Timothy SnyderThe New Tsar by Steven Lee Myers
The #Resist List
162 books — 35 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankSchindler’s List by Thomas KeneallySophie Scholl and the White Rose by Annette DumbachOperation Einstein by Mark A. Cooper
Germans Defying Hitler
80 books — 30 voters

Technological Slavery by Theodore John KaczynskiIndustrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John KaczynskiAnti-Tech Revolution by Theodore John KaczynskiAnti-Tech Revolution by Theodore John KaczynskiThis Is an Uprising by Mark Engler
Best Resistance Strategy Books
40 books — 33 voters
Jesus of Nazareth by Gerhard LohfinkTalks by Abdu'l-Baha by Abdu'l-BaháJesus by Richard Bauckham
Jesus as Teacher
3 books — 2 voters

Omar El Akkad
One of the hallmarks of Western liberalism is an assumption in hindsight of virtuous resistance as the only polite expectation of people on the receiving end of colonialism. While the terrible thing is happening, while the land is still being stolen, and the natives still being killed, any form of opposition is terroristic and must be crushed for the sake of civilization. But decades, centuries later, when enough of the land has been stolen and enough of the natives killed, it is safe enough to ...more
Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Leonardo da Vinci
It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
Leonardo da Vinci

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